2nd Biennial of Latin Letters Opens in Venezuela

New forms of typographies of some Latin American countries are shown in the 2nd Biennial of Latin Letters.

The event is taking place at the Carlos Cruz Diez Museum and is an exhibition of different proposals that go from the vanguardist to nationalist tendencies.

Darias gave as example of the last tendency of the typography the Venezuelan designer John Moore who showed, among other proposals, letters with iconographic elements of the maquiritare ethnic group.

"Creating new alternatives tendencies to typographic level is important because we have been 500 years depending of fonts made outside of the country."

He reminded that, in most of the cases, traditional letter fonts like Times New Roman and Arial are used, however, none of them with a local name like Chuao or Petaquire.

New typographical proposals in the categories of text, title, iconographics, screen and experimental conform the exhibition which compile the 70 most remarkable works of the 427 contestants, besides all Venezuelan proposals.

The symbol of the Biennial is a big A with the height of the visitors and it has been exhibited in the hall of the museum. This A was created by the Argentinean Ruben Fontana who was the responsible for creating the Biennial.